INTRODUCTION There are many opportunities for nurses to assist improving patient's ex-perience of cancer. In fact, in every stage of cancer process, nurses can provide the re-quired and necessary cares and supports by representing substantial caring behaviors. Thus, by identifying and understanding the importance of caring behaviors which led to nurse-patient effective interactions, nurses woul...

Background: Caring is the essence of nursing practice, but has been understood in various countries in a different way. Analysis of nurses’ perception of caring behaviors provides the possibility to nursing teachers and administrators to be able to plan a program to meet all the patients’ needs with an inclusive view. Aim: to determine nurses’ perception about caring behaviors and the factors t...

Nurse educators assisted the director of professional nursing practice in a large healthcare system to implement a human caring program across 108 nursing units. These educators used transformational learning principles to reunite bedside nurses with the art of caring. Implementation included core content in a 30-minute training session, large-scale leadership conferences, and consistent educat...

As a Guest Editor of International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being’s special edition on health and caring, it is my pleasure to present four original papers that cover a broad range of caring science: from philosophy of care to its empirical practice. The origin of the papers is the authors’ engagement in the European Academy of Caring Science (EACS). EACS is a network o...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to illuminate the nursing staff's lived experiences and meaning in giving tactile massage (TM) while caring for patients in short-term emergency ward. METHOD Data were collected through individual qualitative interviews with six nurses and eight assistant nurses working with TM in short-term emergency wards in two hospitals in Sweden. The narrativ...

The theories of Florence Nightingale and Jean Watson provide a framework for the caring work of nurses. Ironically, this caring profession struggles with bullying. Bullying has both physiological and psychological ramifications for the person being bullied and a negative impact on the organization and patient care. Strategies to address bullying include education, developing codes of acceptable...

I have followed the ongoing debate on ‘the lost art of caring’ with a great deal of interest and not a little confusion. The initial impetus for the discussion was the paper by Corbin (2008), which set the scene and, to some extent, defined the parameters for the three responses which followed in the subsequent issue of this journal (Flatley and Bridges, 2008; Griffiths, 2008; Maben, 2008). The...